Anyone can play guitar...or hack the Linux kernel (C|Net)

[Posted August 12, 2008 by ris]

Matt Asay covers the Linux Foundation's publication of a guide to Linux kernel development. "Well, perhaps not anyone, but navigating kernel development just got easier thanks to the Linux Foundation's publication of a guide to Linux kernel development. I don't think this means that I'm going to become the Linux kernel's top contributor anytime soon (unless, of course, they start accepting blog entries as code submissions), but it hopefully will make Linux kernel development easier to understand."

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Posted Aug 12, 2008 20:27 UTC (Tue) by jdave23 (guest, #27160) [Link]

Nice work by Mr. Corbet -- clear, thorough, and easy to read.  Useful information for
individual contributers as well as a good introduction for businesses thinking about
participating.

Anyone can play guitar...or hack the Linux kernel (C|Net)

Posted Aug 12, 2008 22:38 UTC (Tue) by nbarriga (guest, #49347) [Link]

Does anyone know where to find a PDF of this article?

PDF version

Posted Aug 12, 2008 22:51 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

A PDF version is supposed to be in the works. If it doesn't happen soon, maybe I'll make one myself.

Anyone can play guitar...or hack the Linux kernel (C|Net)

Posted Aug 12, 2008 22:45 UTC (Tue) by wt (guest, #11793) [Link]

Does LWN.net provide the distributed authentication needed for the Linux Foundation site where
the doc is? I'd like to post a comment, but I have no interested in signing up for yet another
account.

wt

Anyone can play guitar...or hack the Linux kernel (C|Net)

Posted Aug 13, 2008 14:37 UTC (Wed) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]

Ve3ry nice document, as you would expect from Jon.

But, the font is actively painful...

Anyone can play guitar...or hack the Linux kernel (C|Net)

Posted Aug 14, 2008 12:52 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link]

Unchecking "Allow documents to choose their own fonts" is your friend. :)